M R Bethell (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cardboard boards with colour illustration on front, orange-brown cloth spine, and olive-brown back board. Corners worn to boards and edge wear to boards in spots. Spine ends soft, marks, discoloration and scratches on back board. Small stains on pages 118-120, 1.5" tear on side edge of page 97 near bottom, wrinkling to bottom of pages 69-84. Clear-taped tear side of page 71. Enid Blyton is among the storytellers included. Stunning illustrations, crafts are undone, and the book is divided into the 4 seasons. A real little gem of a book, not easy to find and very good for its age. None of my books are ex-library, remainders or bce unless specified. Rosemary Brown, Quentin Crisp, Trever Evans, Mary Bethell-Jones, G. Ernest Lang, Little-Wood Moore, R.M. Turvey. W.A. Welch, Andrew Wilson (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1955. No Edition Remarks. 13 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over cream paper covered boards. Black and white and colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in english translation first printing hardback 25 plates lacks front free end paper, otherwise near Very Good condition in near Very Good dust jacket (lacks about one centimetre of material at top of spine area of dust jacket). Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Attractively produced mid-century dressmaking guide for schools. All in VG clean and bright order throughout. School name neatly to fep. Stiff card boards a little grubby. This is a charity sale for Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 48pp. James Cliffe (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1986 reprint. Paperback. 20x13cm. 575 pages with index. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref dch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1987 Manchester University Press hardcover edition. Some reading wear else good condition. Contents: 1 Flesh, bones, dust and society by A. Boddington, A.N. Garland & R.C. Janaway; 2 Detection and enhancement of decayed inhumations at Sutton Hoo by P.H. Bethell & M.O.H. Carver; 3 Decay and disorder in the York Jewbury skeletons by D. Brothwell; 4 Chaos, disturbance and decay in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery by A. Boddington; 5 Factors determining the state of preservation of human remains by Janet Henderson; 6 The relative survival of the human skeleton: implications for palaeopathology by T. Waldron; 7 Knowledge acquired from post-War exhumations by A.K. Mant; 8 Cremation slag: a substance found in funerary urns by Julian Henderson, R.C. Janaway & J. R. Richards; 9 A new method of estimating age at death from fragmentary and weathered bone by C. Samson & K. Branigan; 10 A histological study of archaeological bone decomposition by A.N. Garland; 11 The preservation of organic materials in association with metal artefacts, deposited in inhumation graves by R.C. Janaway; 12 The potential of analysis of chemical constituents of bone by T. Waldron; 13 Skeletal evidence for health and disease by K. Manchester; 14 From bones to population: the problem of numbers by A. Boddington; 15 Mortuary practices: society, theory building and archaeology by R. Chapman; 16 The contribution that human skeletal biology may make to forensic science by A. Stirland; 17 Forensic anthropology: the American experience by W.M. Bass.…